obnoxious vs offensive

obnoxious

adj
  • Extremely offensive or unpleasant; very annoying, contemptible, or odious. 

  • Exposed or vulnerable to something, especially harm or injury. 

offensive

adj
  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, or indignation. 

  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. 

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

How often have the words obnoxious and offensive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )